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Australia:MA certified movies
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Two foster brothers, black John (Wesley Snipes) and white Charlie (Woody Harrelson), who have dreamt since their childhood of someday becoming rich, hatch an audacious scheme to rob the money train that carries the New York Subway's daily revenue. Only two things can keep them from doing it: they are transit cops; and the train belongs to their boss, Donald Patterson (Robert Blake), the chief of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. However, the temptation seems too strong for them to resist. Charlie needs the money to repay his gambling debts to the mob. Furthermore, he is desperate to wreak vengeance upon his fierce boss, who has discharged him lately. On New Year's Eve, the brothers venture to make their plan a reality... |
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In the years following World War II Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is haunted by memories of brutality of his war. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God since he was occasionally forced to participate in a Nazi crime. He tries to escape his memories travelling through far countries. In Cairo he meets a collector of rare antiquities who have unearthed a Christian church in the remote region of Kenya. The church seemed to be buried at the same day it was built. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find some ancient artefact hidden within the church before the British discover it. But while investigating, they find out that the church was built to protect the area against an evil force, which has been buried long ago and eventually released along the excavations. The horror has only just begun. |
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Young artist Alan Parker's (Jonathan Jackson) obsession with death adversely affects his life. After losing his sweetheart, Jessica (Erika Christensen), the distraught student is about to lay violent hands on himself. But his friends manage to stave off the tragedy. Alan recovers and soon discovers that he has inadvertently opened the door for the Grim Reaper to enter his life. When he receives the distressing news that his mother Jean (Barbara Hersey) has had a stroke and taken to hospital, Alan instantly decides to hitchhike home to visit his dying mom. On Halloween night, when it is dark and scary, he takes the road, only to come face to face with Death Incarnate (David Arquette) offering to drive him in his high-speeding car. Alan is impaled on the horns of a harrowing dilemma: whether to stop his nightmarish ride and thus heap up trouble for his only relative or continue riding the Bullet. |
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During the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, a group of terrorists led by a former government employee, Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), take the Vice President of the United States Daniel Binder (Raymond J. Barry) hostage and demand to transfer $1 billion to their account electronically by the end of the game, threatening to blow up a gigantic stadium packed with fans. Among spectators is a former firefighter named Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) attending the hockey game with his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) and his son Tyler (Ross Malinger). When the girl is suddenly kidnapped, the infuriated father sets out to foil Foss's nefarious plan and save the hostages. |
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It's a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's play which is transported from medieval Scotland to modern-day Australia. Macbeth (Sam Worthington) is a cold-blooded assassin working for a powerful Melbourne crime lord, Duncan (Gary Sweet). A fateful encounter with three teenage witches (Chloe Armstrong, Kate Bell and Miranda Nation), who prophesy that he will soon assume power, stirs his ambition and arouses in him the determination to try to take total control over Duncan's gang. Encouraged by his heartless wife (Victoria Hill), Macbeth kills his boss, only to find that murder is not merely a step towards power but also leads to his own downfall and death. |
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Wanting to have fun, Stephen H. Price (Geoffrey Rush), an eccentric amusement park owner, invites six strangers to his hated wife’s birthday party which is held in an abandoned mental institute on a sinister hill. The guests arriving, Stephen offers them one million dollars if they can stay alive in the haunted building till dawn. It sounds funny to be true, but when creepy things start happening, it takes the smile off their faces...
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The spawn of the evil Chucky doll is grown up to be a peaceful kind of guy. This time around, after hearing the news of a film being made about his parents' murderous legacy, Glen (Billy Boyd), an orphan offspring, goes to Hollywood, where he promptly brings homicidal Chucky (Brad Dourif) and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) back to life. Chucky is seriously disappointed in his son's lack of inherent evil and tries to pass his vast knowledge of all murderous mayhem before Glen becomes some sort of nice guy. Tiff also doesn't hesitate to let her son repudiate their family's most cherished tradition - killing amusements. The action takes place in Hollywood, Jennifer Tilly plays herself becoming an unwitting hostess to the new family in this hilarious horror movie. |
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Orion Boyd (Steven Seagal), an intractable Detroit cop, whose uncompromising approach to domestic terrorism and corruption causes him a lot of trouble, takes efforts to stop a gang rule in the most dangerous district of Detroit. When 50 kilos of heroin are stolen from Piper Tech’s main vault, Boyd teams up with a drug kingpin, Latrell Walker (DMX), to crush a lethal conspiracy.
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In the end of the 70's, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed to join the police force. When his application is refused, his mother sends him to Los Angeles to live with his sadistic cousin Angelo Buono. Kenneth unsuccessfully tries to join LAPD, and Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business with him. They force two girls from Tucson to work for them, but their competitors destroy their business and steals their money. The frustrated Kenneth and Angelo decide to revenge against a prostitute, and Kenneth strangles her, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted in death, initially killing prostitutes and then attacking single women, dumping their bodies on the hill. |
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It was imprudent of Martin Raikes (Michael Keaton), a New York workaholic banker, to display adherence to his principles while investigating some questionable transactions in Monaco. Besides, it was unwise of him to refuse to take hush money. As a result, Martin is accused of a political assassination and is forced into escape and into hiding. Meanwhile, his family is held hostage. Martin is wanted by the police, the FBI and the international mafia. However, there's still plenty of life left in the modest yet quick bank clerk. If necessary, he is ready to fight with the whole world. |
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Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman--and now a lesbian--offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, Jack is persuaded by the chance to make easy money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated. |
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role. |
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A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved. |
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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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The story is set in 1890s Siam. Jone Bang Fai (the Fireball Bandit) is a young Muay Thai warrior and rocketry expert who steals back water buffalo taken from poor Isan farmers by unscrupulous cattle raiders. He is also searching for a man with a tattoo who killed his parents.
Meanwhile, a local nobleman, Lord Waeng, wants to create a market for the steam tractors he's selling. So he hires a hulking convict, "The Thief", to kill all the cattle traders and round up all the water buffalo for slaughter, depriving farmers of the draft animals they need to cultivate rice. Lord Waeng's men are eventually pitted against Nai Hoi Sing, a cattle trader with supernatural martial arts powers and a tattoo on his chest. The tattoo gets Jone Bang Fai's attention, and while the Thief is trying to steal Sing's cattle herd, Jone Bang Fai tries to attack Sing, but is repelled.
Lord Waeng then enlists Jone Bang Fai in a scheme to defeat Sing. To do so, they also need the help of the Black Wizard, who was once cursed by Sing so that he cannot withstand sunlight. The Black Wizard says the only way to defeat Sing and reverse his spells is to use the menstrual blood of a virgin – the Black Wizard's daughter, E'Sao. |
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Drug enthusiast and chemical master Silas and his friend Jamal lose their best friend Ivory to a disturbing pot related dread-lock fire, growing a pot plant in his ashes they use his heavenly connections to hook them up with all the knowledge they need to make it to Harvard... where they change the lives of the up-tight ivy league in the way only good stoner's can |
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In ancient Persia, an evil creature called the Djinn wreaks havoc on a local kingdom before being sealed inside a stone - a fire opal. Centuries later, the stone, encased in a statue, is discovered when the statue is broken apart in a loading accident. A young gemologist, Alexandra Amberson, examines the jewel to appraise it. But she unwittingly awakes the horrible Djinn inside. Soon the Djinn is loose on the streets, twisting people's wishes and and killing them so he can steal their souls. Eventually the Djinn disguises himself as an elegant man-about-town, Nathaniel Demarest. In both human & Djinn form, he pursues Alexandra to trick her into making three wishes, to enable his unholy legions to conquer the Earth... |
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Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) returns to the screen in the action-packed thriller Sniper 3 to become National Security Agency's secret weapon. Beckett is hired to terminate a suspected terrorist and soon discovers the criminal's personality. His former best friend Paul Finnegan, believed to have been killed in action, became a dangerous spy who constantly tries to manipulate the US and whole the world. Meanwhile, Thomas realizes that his employers' motives are not apparently claimed. |
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An adaptation of Richard Price's novel "Freedomland" portrays a single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) who thinks her son is dead after he is disappeared. She tells police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a terrible story of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides two towns. She claims that her child was kidnapped by an African-American. This reveals the long-existing racial animosity between two towns... |
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Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell. |
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